gchat convo of the day

Alex: I checked your site to see where your staycation took you this weekend...

ikea counts

it's like going to sweeden

True. I practically did go abroad- had to cross a wide body of water (Hudson), to a foreign land (Jersey), accompanied by my parents in a vehicle that looks like a spaceship (Prius). The dollar is clearly a whole lot stronger there (since when are slipcovers $11.99 USD?), and the 3 hours I spent inside def felt longer than most family vacations. We came away with a couple of decent finds, a lot of nausea and a $1 dollar frozen yogurt. Here's a pic of the living room furniture with Sveeden's finest slipcovers that cost less than a pizza in Manhattan.

I love technology

Even though I work in technology and spend 95% of my waking hours hooked up to it, there are still those occasional moments that make me go OMG I loooooooove technology. The latest occurred for me on Friday around 4pm when I heard that lovely melotic someone-is-trying-to-vid-chat-you song and I tabbed over to my gmail and accepted a video chat from Mom. Then OMG there were both my parents sitting next to eachother in that very familiar seating that was, yes, a PLANE! "Hi Nat- we're on Virigin America-and chatting with you!" I clearly distracted my whole team by blowing the chat up full screen and insisting they all come over and check it out, screaming "OMG my parents are on the plane and videoing me!!!!"


They were somewhere over Ohio 30k feet in the air and with a video connection that was as crystal clear as if we were in the same room. Pretty f'ing neato if you ask me. On the flip side, there is part of me that hates the slow addition of internet on planes-- there was something nice about having to disconnect for a full 6 hour trip to Cali...a nice excuse, not to be doing work, to be unreachable. Guess those days are over.

gchat convo of the day

Agreed. Who doesn't want to be Alex and Pat?!

Gmail Chat Mishaps

My chat is bugging out. The past two days when I've signed on it has changed my photo.

Yesterday it was this:










Note: I have no idea who these girls are and def don't have this photo on my comp. Bizzzzzarre.

Today was this:









Which is a photo of my cousin Molly (or a look-a-like) which I have also never seen before. wtf gmail.

Status Message of the Day

Kat: nothing says i am fat and i love california like laying out with a burrito in january

It was 75 there today. It's only 23 here...same thing.